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  • The Tick (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis)

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    ‘The Tick’

    [SNES / GEN] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1994]

    • GamePro, December 1994 (#65)
      • Scanned by Phillyman, via RetroMags

    http://darth-azrael.tumblr.com/post/160626625367/vgprintads-the-tick-snes-gen-usa

    The Tick was both a comic book and an animated series on Fox. I never read the comic but the the animated series was very good and extremely funny. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it. A video game based on the comic and animated series was released in 1994 for both the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. It’s unfortunate that it didn’t live up to the quality of the animated series. It wasn’t absolutely horrible, it just peaked at average.

    The game is a fairly typical side scrolling beat ’em up (think Streets of Rage). However, it’s fairly generic, repetitive and the frame rate is not great. It also doesn’t do enough to capture the humor of the series. Unfortunately, mediocre to terrible games are not uncommon when it comes to licenses. The mindset often seems to be to get a game out as fast as possible, regardless of quality, in an attempt to capitalize on popularity in another type of media.

    This game is probably of some interest if you were a fan of the comic or tv series but nobody else would likely care.





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  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super Nintendo)

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    Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo was released in November 1991 only a few months after the North American release of the Super Nintendo. It is my favorite Zelda game but to be fair, it is also the only one that I have spent significant time playing. However, I am not alone as this is widely regarded as one of the best games ever made. I loved the look of this game more than any of the others too.

    Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo was released in November 1991 only a few months after the North American release of the Super Nintendo. It is my favorite Zelda game but to be fair, it is also the only one that I have spent significant time playing. However, I am not alone as this is widely regarded as one of the best games ever made. I loved the look of this game more than any of the others too.

    Fortunately, if you don’t own a Super Nintendo there are several other ways to play this game. It was first re-released as The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords on the Game Boy Advance in 2002. It is also available for the Wii, Wii-U and New Nintendo 3DS via the Virtual Console. In addition, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013 which takes play in the same world and is the successor to A Link to the Past.

    The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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  • MechWarrior 3050 (Super Nintendo)

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    Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly 2 – Issue Number 17 – November 1995

    MechWarrior 3050 was a Super Nintendo exclusive game released in 1995. Ok, not really. Almost exactly the same game was released for the Sega Genesis under the name BattleTech the year before. Both games got mixed reviews. The game was quite good in a number of ways but it had a high difficulty level that could lead to frustration. The game was very similar for both systems with the SNES being praised for better graphics in general but the Genesis version getting credit for smoother animation and better controls.

    This game is played from an isometric point of view and can be played with one or two players (cooperative). If two players are playing, one controls movement and the other controls the turret and firing. Personally, I always preferred the more simulation oriented first person MechWarrior games on the PC (I mostly played MechWarrior 2).

    The above ad is from the November 1995 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly’s second publication, EGM2.





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